It has been a political ploy, almost certainly for long before my time. I guess it works, getting one faction to excuse their chosen group while baselessly insulting opposing people.
More? Okay: “idiopathic” means “relating to or denoting any disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.” Of course, I had to look up what “idio” is about. Dictionary dot com says it is…
a combining form meaning “proper to one,” “peculiar,” used in the formation of compound words: idiomorphic."
We use a housesitter when we are gone to make sure there is nothing going wrong, including water leak. At $20 per day (one visit per day) I think it’s worth it.
SO! we should obey the ancient expression to Get the Goat!! Well, it was something like that.